Regions as defined in this context are merely for statistical, geographical, geological and climate related purposes and do not refer to an administrative division.

The electoral results of National Alliance in the 10 most populated Regions of Italy are shown in the table below.

Regions within North America, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and East Asia are monsoon regimes.

In Turkey, there are some dolmens in the Regions of Lalapasa and Suloglu in the Province of Edirne and the Regions of KOfcaz, Kirklareli and Demirkoy in the Province of Kirklareli, in the Eastern Thrace.

Regions outside Mieszko's rule, pruzze ( Prussia ) and russe ( Russia ), are mentioned with the word fines.

Regions most at risk for great loss of life include those where earthquakes are relatively rare but powerful, and poor regions with lax, unenforced, or nonexistent seismic building codes.

Dartmouth College and the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory are located there.

Regions are further divided in provinces.

The different script systems resulting from the preservation or simplication of original pre-Republic Chinese characters are used by Chinese people living under different jurisdictions: " Simplified Chinese " in Mainland China ( the People's Republic of China ), " Traditional Chinese " in the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and " Proper Chinese " ( which is the same script as " Traditional Chinese ") in Taiwan ( the Republic of China ).

Some special cases are the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau where the Communist Party does not function at all as part of the governmental system, and the autonomous regions where, following Soviet practice, the chief executive is typically a member of the local ethnic group while the party general secretary is non-local and usually Han Chinese.

Smaller branches within those kingdoms include Principalities, Regions, Baronies, and Provinces, and local chapters are known as Cantons, Ridings, Shires, Colleges, Strongholds, and Ports.

Regions in the world with similar climates to southern Tierra del Fuego are: Aleutian islands, Iceland, Alaska Peninsula, Faroe Islands, Macquarie Island and Heard and McDonald Islands.

International amateur radio ALE High Frequency channels are frequency coordinated with all Regions of the International Amateur Radio Union ( IARU entity of ITU ), for international, regional, national, and local use in the Amateur Radio Service.

The Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau are completely exempt from the policy.

Hong Kong and Macau are two Special Administrative Regions ( SAR ) of China which have a high degree of autonomy, except in acts of state like diplomatic relations and national defence.

Each February the city hosts the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup, which are men's ATP World Tour 500 series and WTA events, respectively.

Regions with a polar climate are characterized by a lack of warm summers ( specifically, no month having an average temperature of or higher ).

The five main categories are Countries and Regions, Business, Finance and Economics, Science and Technology, and Other.

Although Hong Kong and Macau are now Special Administrative Regions of China, each maintains its own long-established postal system, which does not utilize postal codes for domestic mail, and no postal codes are assigned to Hong Kong and Macau.

Regions are not entitled to levy their own taxes., and they rely entirely on central state funding ( around 70 %) and funding coming from the municipalities ( around 30 %).

Regions are led by directly elected councils ( regionsråd ).

* Regions: At present 5 of them ( Valle d ' Aosta, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Sardinia and Sicily ) have a special status and are given more power than the others.

The greater part of the area is now administered as the Government Office Regions of the West Midlands and East Midlands, though parts of the traditional Midlands are also in surrounding regions, namely Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ( East of England ), Oxfordshire ( South East ), Gloucestershire ( South West ) and Northern Lincolnshire ( Yorkshire and the Humber ).

In the early 1990s, the five geographical Regions were replaced by a Sector organisation, where passenger services were organised into Inter City, Network SouthEast and Other Provincial Services sectors.

* The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, compiled by Bianji ; a recount of Xuanzang's journey.

Ecumenical cooperation and collaboration with other Christian Communions has long been practiced, by the Regions.

* One representative nominated by each of the liberal-democratic groups in European parliamentary assemblies ( including the European Parliament and the Committee of the Regions ), and

According to the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions by the European Environment Agency, Macedonia's territory can be subdivided into four ecoregions: the Pindus Mountains mixed forests, Balkan mixed forests, Rhodopes mixed forests and Aegean sclerophyllous and mixed forests.

Regions covered by the operation became the site of some of the largest battles, deadliest atrocities, highest casualties, and most horrific conditions for Soviets and Germans alike — all of which influenced the course of both World War II and 20th century history.

Regions of the cerebral cortex associated with pain. Wilhelm Erb's ( 1874 ) " intensive " theory, that a pain signal can be generated by intense enough stimulation of any sensory receptor, has been soundly disproved.

On 1 January 2007 the counties were replaced by five Regions.

After the new Protector General of the Western Regions Chen Mu ( d. 75 CE ) was killed by allies of the Xiongnu in Karasahr and Kucha, the garrison at Hami was withdrawn.

In The Joiner King, Han and Leia follow various Jedi who had disappeared into the Unknown Regions, and discover Raynar Thul is alive and had been taken in by a nest of Killiks.

Heath did not divide Britain into regions, choosing instead to await the report of the Crowther Commission on the constitution ; the ten Government Office Regions were eventually set up by the Major government in 1994.

The county was abolished in 1975 by the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 and split between Central and Tayside Regions:

In March, Davenport won her second tournament of the year and 55th career singles title by beating Olga Govortsova in the final of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships & The Cellular South Cup in Memphis, Tennessee.

Regions consist of subregions that contain clusters of like areas that are distinctive by their uniformity of description based on a range of statistical data, for example demographic, and locales.

This resulted in the creation by the Maastricht Treaty of the Committee of the Regions, and provision for member states to be represented in the Council by ministers from their regional governments.

The five urban communes make up the Conakry Region, one of the eight Regions of Guinea, which is headed by a governor.

The current French Regions date from 1956 and were created by gathering Departements together.

Data produced by the BLS is often categorized into groups of states known as Census Regions.

There are 4 Census Regions, which are further categorized by Census Division as follows: